Whatever happened to tradition?
Scots medics urgently need donations, but in this case they’re not talking about cash, blood or even organs. From students of medicine to the most experienced surgeons, they need whole, dead bodies.
The number of people donating their mortal remains to medical science needs to double “with immediate effect”, according to the man with the imposing title Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland. Professor Bertie Wood needs 300 bodies a year to keep pace with developments in training that offer new hope to the living.
One of the key new demands is from surgeons who specialise in operating on the joints to help arthritis sufferers and other patients with debilitating conditions related to their limbs. These already highly-trained doctors need a steady supply of bodies on which to hone their skills.
Around a dozen body parts recently had to be imported from the United States because there were not sufficient numbers available for use in training surgeons in complex shoulder surgery techniques.
Perish the thought that Scots medics-in-training should have to cut through those extra layers of fat.
I bet they’d get a lot more if they offered, say, $1000 per body to the family if the deceased. Of course they’d have to deal with the cause of death if the family didn’t like the deceased
Get the fork out.
Make no bones about this at all
uhm how about sending those doctors to the united states for training, we sure could use those euros here…
I’m still an organ donor but I no longer am leaving my whole body to science. I used to have that box checked on my driver’s license but no longer.
What turned me off was artists using corpses for display.
I don’t want my family traumatized by seeing my dead body in some art gallery or picture of it in a magazine.
I know it is a remote possibility but it’s not exactly rare, either, and seems to be getting more common.
Maybe that’s how surgeons dilute their malpractice claims- every third or fifth patient is a corpse!! Before surgery, I mean.
Maybe they should start importing the frozen corpses from China, I’m sure they don’t have a shortage of executed dissidents.
Practice on grapefruits. Just warm them up for 30 seconds in the microwave.
Just make donations mandatory for the good of the people.
Should have talked to that mexican guy